https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19281
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Summary: Page-category mapping feature
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Categories
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: cat...@vp.pl
There's a perennial problem over what to do with "eponymous categories" -
whether (for example) "Category:London" should be assigned as a "subcategory"
of "Category:English cities", and if it is, whether "London" should then be
taken out of the latter category (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization/Eponymous_RFC for a
discussion that shows there's currently no entirely satisfactory solution).
Anyway, the problem would largely go away if the following feature could be
implemented, and I wonder if it would be feasible.
The idea is that we could "map" a page to a distinguished category (for
example, the syntax [[Category:Xxx| ]] with a space sortkey would cause that
category to be the distinguished category for the current page, say [[Xxx]]).
This would have two effects (besides placing the page in the category as now):
1) on the [[Category:Xxx]] page, an additional category box would appear
containing the "Categories for Xxx", i.e. the categories to which [[Xxx]] has
been assigned, even though Category:Xxx itself has not been assigned to them;
2) on any other category containing [[Xxx]], there would be a category expand
button (a + sign or something) next to Xxx on the list of pages, which would
expand to the category tree for Category:Xxx (thus allowing access to
Category:Xxx from every category containing Xxx without the need to make it a
"subcategory" of all those categories).
I know it sounds complicated, but I can assure you it would make this
functionality much slicker for both editors and viewers.
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